The Horse & Jockey public house closed in 2002. It had looked in a run-down state for some time, with threadbare curtains, dusty windows, and the paint on the sign of horse and jockey peeling away. It looks much smarter now that it has been converted into flats and renamed as Gosling Court. It should have been ‘Gosing’ but the l got added somehow.

On the other side of Bath Street is another interesting building, now used as a teaching block by Abingdon School. It reminds me of the split-level barn used in the BBC production of Thomas Hardy’s “Mayor of Casterbridge“.